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Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt, is a city with a high quality of life.Roughly 230.000 people live in the 1.200 year old cathedral city on the river Elbe. In the region around Magdeburg, 370.000 inhabitants can be counted, and within a radius of 100 km there are nearly four more million people living. Magdeburg is all around a city full of surprises – a city to work in, to study in, to enjoy life with its cultural, leisure, and shopping highlights. Economy Research and TechnologyMagdeburg has established itself as a location for innovative enterprises, logistic competence, and praxis-linked research and development. For the economic change, municipal location politics emphasise the construction of seminal clusters: medical technology, logistics, environment protection technology, and innovative mechanical engineering. German and international market leaders have their production sites here, as for instance the producer of wind generators ENERCON and the producer of helmets Schuberth Head Protection Technology. A perfect infrastructure, subsidies for investments, as well as qualified and affordablemanpower – all these offer ideal conditions for new industrial investment. Science is both medium and motor for the structural change in Magdeburg. The city’s new “raw materials” are called research and innovation – two universities and 18 scientific institutes form a suitable breeding ground for new technologies and products. Magdeburg, a city 1.200 years old, looking back on a history with ups and downs.Numerous stone witnesses remind us of a magnificent past. Here stands Germany’s first Gothic cathedral – Magdeburg’s most important landmark – and the Romanesque monastery “Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen”, which is both Magdeburg’s oldest building and the centre-piece of the Romanesque Road (“Straße der Romanik”). Martin Luther preached the reformation in St John’s Church (“Johanniskirche”). Five times destroyed and five times rebuilt, St John’s is today a house of culture, art, and communication. Magdeburg became famous as the city of Otto the Great. He used itas a palatinate in 936, and so Magdeburg very early had an important standing in Germany and Europe. From here, European politics were directed during the early Middle Ages. The emperor Otto I. and his wife are buried in the Magdeburg Cathedral. Another son of the city is Otto von Guericke. Not only was he mayor of Magdeburg for 30 years, but he also became famous all over the world for his experiments and inventions, especially the experiment with the Magdeburg Hemispheres. One of the greenest Cities of GermanyWater and Green alternate in the city on the river Elbe. Twenty parks invite you to relax: Some designed by famous landscape architects in the past, others newly created for the Federal Garden Show, furthermore the unique meadow landscape along the Elbe; all these make Magdeburg one of the greenest cities of Germany. The Elbe – the Blue Ribbon – draws it's trail straight through the city. Its importance as a tourist destination increases steadily, and Magdeburg will put an emphasis on active water tourism in the future. For more Information please contact:Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg Beigeordneter Dr. Klaus Puchta |